mosuri
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12 minutes ago, Huba said:
Well if there's anyone with legitimate claim to Moscow, it is the Mongols. Maybe Poles and French too...
Swedes should claim the lot, including Ukraine (it's all Rurik's fault anyway)
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41 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Reminds me of the old saying... "do you really hear what you are saying?". Or as I'd put it, "do you really hear what you are saying or are you really that stupid?"
Steve
Can't find the meme picture now, but the idea was roughly
(Russia, knocking on door) "Let me in"
(Finland) "Why?"
(Russia) "I'm going to protect you"
(Finland) "Protect me from what?"
(Russia) "From what I'm going to do to you if you don't let me in" -
29 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
First thing I thought of when I saw quotes of Lavrov was "gee, I wonder if the Israelis will think a bit harder about their relationship with Putin".
Steve
Kind of wish they gave more air time to Latrinov in the western media -- giving him more rope to hang himself with that is ...
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12 hours ago, c3k said:
Older inertial guidance was subject to a lot of drift. On the order of 4 Nautical Miles per Hour was considered quite good.
Update systems were required for many of them. Celestial, navaid, radar, etc., to return the drift to a known position.
For a Soviet-era SRBM of the 60's/70's, meant to be equipped with a nuclear warhead, the drift would certainly be acceptable without the added expense of update systems or high-accuracy inertial nav systems.
The old "horse shoes and hand grenades" statement...
Modern ring-laser gyros, coupled with modern solid-state accelerometers produce accuracy several (3, 4, or 5) orders of magnitude better than the old "spinning mass" systems.
Thanks for the info! Didn't know the accuracy was quite that bad, although I was aware of some ballistic (not cruise) missiles using also celestial navigation.
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1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said:
Well, that might explain some of the wide misses that have been noted. IIRC back in those days guidance was all based on estimated times for it to get from A to B. The missile would stay on a fixed compass heading for that amount of time then change paths to another heading for another predesignated amount of time. Time per leg could be adjusted inflight by comparing actual airspeed to what was used in the calculation, either decreasing or increasing as needed. If this sounds pretty iffy to you... correct! This is why they tried to fly these things in straight lines and as few as possible.
At least that's how I remember this old stuff.
Steve
Well, certainly not an expert, but I would guess inertial guidance instead of simple dead reckoning?
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3 hours ago, Elmar Bijlsma said:
The end of tanks IS neigh, our prophet has foretold it!
Are we getting cavalry back?
Sorry, couldn't resist
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2 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
And this just stumbled upon. According to Bellingcat's Christo Grozev, Putin has put himself in charge of the military:
If this is true, hope it works out for him as well as it did to Nick the 2nd
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8 hours ago, The_MonkeyKing said:
The NATO membership application will be send in the next 1-2 weeks.
I truly hope so (together with certain leftovers from 70s have a collective stroke out of sheer frustration) but it's not done until it's done.
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11 hours ago, Haiduk said:
No, judging on display this is Stugna-P, just missile was lauched from upper storeys of the modular building
One thing I've been wondering is -- since Stugna-P is laser guided AIUI -- we're seeing very few vids of tanks popping smoke. Don't RF tanks have detectors, are they only facing forward, or is it just operator ineptness?
In CMBS smoke popping and reversing happens the instant someone points a laser a tank's way ... BFC please fix or something
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Peeking inside a russian drone: https://youtu.be/1sPKSMeonxg
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43 minutes ago, Battlefront.com said:
Thanks for that. It is the obvious move for Russia. Thankfully the Russian senior commanders do not appear to know about the German's Operation Zitadell that was fought not too far from the area. Because if they did, they would maybe try to do something else. Giving the defender time to reinforce forces along obvious attack paths is not generally a good thing, but especially if the attacking forces have a bad track record of attacking.
I think I know where the Slovak S-300 system is going
Steve
In keeping with that Zitadelle theme, they should delay for a month or two just to get those Armatas to participate
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9 hours ago, Taranis said:
A little number juggling for fun :
In 2020 :
UKR spend 6 B $ in military. GDP = 155 B $ = 3.8 % in military
RUS spend 67 B $ in military. GDP = 1483 B $ = 4.5 % in military (how much corrupted is a good question 
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USA spend 766 B $ in military. GDP = 20 936 B $ = 3.6 % in military
So 300 M $, it's a 5% bonus for UKR of it's military expenditure and only 0.04% of US military expenditure.
I haven't keep track of all assistance since the beginning of the invasion but I wouldn't be surprise there is a at least 50 % bonus expenditure for UKR.source : Trading economics
Another nice bonus is the donations from people all over the world to the armed forces of Ukraine. I was wondering how it was going and was happy to see this update:
If I did my currency conversion correctly 13.7 billion UAH is 460 million USD.
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Did not see this mentioned yet. Lawyers are getting involved ...
12 Rosgvardia troops that refused to participate in the invasion were fired from their jobs; their lawyer is now arguing there is no basis for the sacking, as officially Russia is not at war.
Google translation of the article in Finnish at
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7 hours ago, Ultradave said:
There shouldn't be any alpha emitters in the dust/soil around Chernobyl.
Hi Ultradave,
asking for a bit more detail here. It's been decades from my last physics class but living in an area where radon can be a problem keeps you at least somewhat aware of radioactive decay ... no significant alpha emitters?
AIUI U-235 is used in reactors and it decays to thorium via alpha decay (and there's plenty more alpha decay on the path down to lead, e.g., radon) but it takes aeons to do so, so unless there is massive amounts of it around there's not much alpha floating around. right? I would still avoid kicking up uranium dust, if not for anything else but for the toxic effects
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1 hour ago, Haiduk said:
As if this Russian troops withdraw from Chernihiv oblast
Reportedly about one Russian BTG is in semi-encirclement in Peremoha village area on Brovary direction, Kyiv oblast. This is several kilometers west from recently libarated villages Lukyanivka and Rudnytske. Russian troops are almost out of fuel and food, every day they under fire. Many of personnel as if want to surrender, but commanders tried to force them to fight until supply and reinforcements will not arrive
Start offering cash prices for incapacitated commanders delivered to you when surrendering?
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1 hour ago, Haiduk said:
Russians spotted that UKR drone tracks them and hurried to get away so quicly, that two soldiers hadn't time to embark in KAMAZ and ran over the truck )
Laughed uncontrollably at this! Nice to see that "drone terror" is a thing
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9 hours ago, Haiduk said:
Some about Russian gears... Here captured Russian recons. Four men. One dead, other probably wounded or just surrendered. This guy was captured barefoot - probably he had gumboots and lost them in the mud, when runinig away across the field. Instead the socks he has footcloths (rus. "portianki")
BMP-2 on background is Ukrainian.
I used foot rags in my Finnish army service in the early 90s. Quite comfortable in boots as long as you fold them properly.
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7 hours ago, keas66 said:
Yeah my bad - I caught the capital "S" and assumed
Yeah I was talking about this lovely guy, https://www.politico.eu/article/outrage-germany-ex-chancellor-schroder-gazprom-board-nomination/
My country has an ex-prime minister on Nord Stream payroll as well, so it's not only Schröder, but it's just disappointing to say the least. Either they are corrupt, or useful idiots. In either case they should never have been political leaders.
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4 hours ago, keas66 said:
Germany uses gas for more than just heating purposes though - There is a lot of industrial use of natural gas - so cutting off gas supplies will mean shutting down of parts of the German industry and all the subsequent knock on effects that come out of that .
All the more reason to have more than one supply then. Apparently Germany doesn't currently even have a LNG terminal for shipborne imports? Great planning there.
Schröder must have got an absolutely massive bribe. Or he's a massive idiot. Or both.
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16 minutes ago, DesertFox said:
6th Army? Heh. Maybe Putler should have promoted him to field marshal ...
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12 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
The forces there are NOT cut off. The supply lines are difficult, but they exist.
Here's a map that appears to be more accurate than some of the ones out there:
Apologies if this a repeated topic -- I have read through the whole thread but probably forgotten half of it
How should we read those Russian tendrils spreading out? Advances along major roadways, obviously, but how much actual control of the area that represents? A unit at the head of advance and garrisons strung along, every village and crossroads perhaps? And convoys doing Mad Max runs from garrison to garrison? Or something more solid?Can the Ukranians do a Raate road repeat and cut the red snakes into pieces to be defeated in detail? Or do they also suffer from too much rasputitsa-related movement restrictions outside of the roads for that not to be possible?
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4 hours ago, panzermartin said:
I think as he threatened, maybe a russian Kristallnacht is underway. And targeted oligarchs are fleeing?
From blitz to purge in three weeks. Must be a record of sorts.
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19 hours ago, Haiduk said:
Group of Russian troops of 138th motor-rifle brigade (Kamenka town, Leningrad oblast, Western military district) tried to dig-in in the tree-plant and hold the ground, but something went wrong.... 3 MTLB, 1 T-72B3 and Metis (or Metis-M) ATGM.
It's been mentioned multiple times in the local news in Finland that the Russian garrisons along the border have been drained of combat troops, at least every two out of three battalions committed to Ukraine.
Some journalists went to interview locals last week, but were asked to leave soon. But not before getting an admission from an officer's wife that the soldiers knew where they were heading, and rumors of 350 wounded for the Kamenka brigade (article only in Finnish unfortunately https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000008665103.html )
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
in Combat Mission Black Sea
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You couldn't make this stuff up. The description of Beria at the end of the video is priceless.